Thoughts about the Elementarist addon? Is it accurate etc for a rotation assistant?

Haven't ever used it. If I had to guess it would be analogous to Shock & Awe for Enhancement. Good for learning the rotation, but to master it you need to learn to play without it. Better addons for helping you keep an eye on your rotation would be addons such as Power Auras Classic (Liax had a good string for that addon a page ago,) Weakauras (Google Endus Elemental Auras,) or NeedtoKnow (admittedly don't know much about this one other than that it provides features similar to the other two I mentioned.)

LvB is better than EB though. That's just a fact. The stat gain isn't lost if you don't use it on LvB, and LvB outdoes EB damage, not to mention its cooldown can be reset randomly by flame shock ticks. If you delay LvB you have the potential to waste lava surge procs which is a loss in DPS.

Basically what you're doing by EBing before LvB is attempting to make your LvB numbers look fancier, which is actually going to be sometimes wasted if it's a critical strike buff, and the haste portion isn't terrible effective on LvB as well, which leaves you with mastery as the one that has the most impact. What you're seeing, when you have that increased mastery proc on LvB casts, is fancier numbers show up on your screen, but that doesn't mean it's mathematically better. It's akin to UEing before LvB because it makes lava burst damage look pretty. It may make our numbers LOOK better, but that's just it...it makes it look better, not be better.

I've found that I do quite a good bit more damage when I do EB before LB.

Because with the 3k boost to the certain stat, it makes LB much more effective with the added on crit from Flame Shock.

1) LB = Lightning BoltLvB = Lava Burst

It's like using SS to try and talk about something as a hunter. Nobody has any idea whether you're talking about Serpent Sting, Steady Shot, or are trolling them and instead are a Rogue in disguise talking about Shadow Step.

2) There are several things that contribute to making Lava Burst better damage than Elemental Blast. They are:

A) With current crit rates Lava Burst will do more damage on average than Elemental blast will even when factoring in the buff. On avearge the buff is worth ~34000 damage when haste or mastery and a little less when crit (closer to about 30k.) Even with that boost Lava Burst will on average straight up outdamage Elemental Blast because of the 100% crit rate on it.

B) Lower cast time. Not only is Lava Burst straight up more damage, but it also has an additional 33.3% edge in dps because Elemental Blast's cast time is that much longer over Lava Burst

100% crit rate and a lower cast time. The two factors combine to make Lava Burst better damage per cast and MUCH better damage per time casting over the course of a fight. The buff doesn't come remotely close to bridging the gap. In fact, the buff only just barely covers the difference between EB and ES+Fulmination.

Any differences you're seeing are going to be almost entirely due to either gimmicks or fundamental flaws with how you're testing them.

I have yet another question for you fine shaman gurus. With elemental blast and echo of the elements what order of our abilities do you find having the highest burst? For example i usually prepot throw up flame shock > lava burst > elemental blast > ascendance/fire elemental macro > stormlash totem > spam lava burst. Lust is tied in there depending on the boss. I know it's probably a dumb question but i was honestly curious what other people find themselves doing? I feel i might be wasting a second and a half or so on ascendance doing it that way. Also if i was to become a troll where berserking would tie in there as well. Thanks in advance guys.